Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were built beside the Straits and were floated into position between the towers on rafts across a swirling tide. They were raised rather over a hundred feet up the towers by successive lifts with primitive hydraulic jacks. All this was not done without both apprehension and adventure; they were giants on the earth in those days.
J.E. GordonTags: science inspirational engineering
One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: magic engineering
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
Steven JohnsonTags: ideas design engineering
He looked down at the desk, at his notebook resting there with the pen on top. He had never thought of engineering as a way to escape the world; after all, engineers didn't build stories or other worlds.
Or, well, perhaps they did; perhaps, late at night, huddled around the boiler with the driver and the conductor, they told their own stories. Famous robberies in the west, derailments, perhaps even ghost trains or passengers long dead who still prowled the carriages.
Either way, Jack had turned his profession into his escape, which Ellis could respect.
Tags: writing ellis jack engineering
Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not an engineer, because an engineer is somebody who starts with a social problem that an organization or a society has and says, "OK, here's this problem that we have- how can we solve it?" The engineer comes up with a clever, cost-effective solution to address that problem, builds it, tests it to make sure it solves the problem. That's engineering.
Philip GreenspunTags: programming engineering engineers programmers
Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.
Ted ChiangTags: knowledge spirituality engineering tower-of-babylon
We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
Cory DoctorowTags: the-future engineering
[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.
Robert S. ArrighiTags: learning failure engineering
Editör Hanım, ‘Otuz beş yaşında mühendisliği bıraktı ve kendini edebiyata verdi.’ cümlesinin biyografimde güzel duracağını düşündüğüm için işimden istifa ettim. Küçük burjuvaların kayda değer lükslerden biri de kendi biyografilerini hayal edebilmeleri ve bazı şeyleri sırf biyografilerinde yer alsın diye yapabilmeleridir.
Barış BıçakçıTags: literature engineering
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
Donald Ervin KnuthTags: technology computer-science engineering algorithms
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